Starbound Wiki Guide

Crafting

Crafting plays a huge role in the universe of Starbound. Players will be able to create all manner of items, weapons, armor and building materials. Unlike other games, where you need to discover recipes on your own, Starbound instead shows you what you need before hand.

Starbound has a progression system in place, so that new characters must work towards building more advanced items. Players must defeat bosses, unlock specific items and go to new sectors to collect rare ores in order to build the most advanced items.

Each time a new building station is unlocked, like the Metalwork Station, new recipes also become available, allowing the player to create new, more powerful items. Collecting new ores will also allow you to produce higher quality items. The different tiers of crafting can be seen on the Crafting Stations page.

Some items can only be built after finding specific recipes for them. These can be found on planets, usually in treasure chests, but occasionally at vendors. Once you have them, you just need to equip them, and use them once to learn the recipe permanently.